Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement (1931–1990)
Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation.
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"لا يستطيع 30 % من سكان نيويورك النوم بلا دواء منوم . يعتقد علماء النفس أنه إن استمر هذا الأمر مائتي عام أخرى , لن يكون هناك شخص واحد قادرا على النوم بدون منوم لقد فقد الناس القدرة على النوم كليا إذا سألك شخص فقد القدرة على النوم , كيف تنام ؟ وأجبته : أضع رأسي على الوسادة وأغط في النوم فلن يصدقك , سيعتبر الأمر مستحيلا , ويشك في أن لك حيلة لا يعرفها -لأنه يضع رأسه على الوسادة أيضا , لكنه لا يستطيع أن ينام قد يأتي زمن لا سمح الله , بعد ألف أو ألفي عام , يفتقد فيه الجميع النوم الطبيعي , ولن يصدق الناس أنه , قبل ألف أو ألفي عام كان الناس ينامون نوما طبيعيا , سيعتبرون الأمر خيالا , أسطورة , لن يصدقوا أنه حقيقة, سيقولون :"هذا غير ممكن لأنه لا يحدث لنا فكيف نصدق أنه كان يحصل للآخرين ؟؟
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ذات يوم لن تستيقظ , سيقرع بائع الجرائد بابك , ستكون زوجتك تشخر , لكنك لن تكون موجودا . ذات يوم سيأتي الموت . فاضحك قبل أن يباغتك اضحك مادمت تمتلك فرصة للضحك ثم انظر إلى كل هذه السخافات من حولك : تتوالى الأيام متشابهه . تقوم بالعمل نفسه مرارا وتكرارا , طيلة حياتك . تلبس خفك وتسرع إلى الحمام – لماذا ؟ لتقوم بالعمل نفسه غدا ؟
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.
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Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers.
And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth — not a belief — is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me.
The first thing to be understood about a man like Jesus is that whatsoever the church that is bound to grow around such a man says about him, it is bound to be wrong. What the Christian church says about Christ cannot be true. In fact the Christian priest does not represent Christ at all. He is the same old rabbi in new garments, the same old rabbi who was responsible for Jesus murder.